Soul of Burning Steel

　　 The star fell 837, January 21st.

If you talk about the southern city of New Moldavia, you have to talk about the huge factories that stand on the edge of the city, the prosperous commercial and trade districts, and the warrior branch campus of Winterhold College, the'Champion Academy'. .

Because Moldavia officially has a complete industrial system such as [mineral production] [material processing] [light and heavy industrial production chain], its production cost is extremely low, and a large number of goods produced in the magic factory are directly transported to In the business district of Nancheng, these commodities produced at extremely low prices can be sold at sky-high prices far more than ten times their cost in the hands of enthusiastic merchants.

　　 Even so, for those cities without magic factories, these products are definitely high-quality and inexpensive.

However, if you just ask a passer-by to ask about the most worthwhile spots in Nancheng District, no one will recommend commercial areas and factories. These locals or foreign businessmen will tell you in unison, come to Molda If you don't visit the Winterhold Soldier Campus, the journey will be absolutely incomplete.

A city prospering because of the legendary powerhouse will naturally be biased towards this legendary powerhouse’s preferences. In addition to the factories and magic equipment everywhere, the most concerned by outsiders is the rumor that Earl Radcliffe himself The Winterhold Academy, which teaches courses in person, is the reason of the same as the "Champions Academy" as a branch school of the Winterhold Academy.

Champion College is the largest building complex in Nancheng District. It covers an area of ​​110,000 square meters and even has a huge underground part. The training ground and student dormitories behind the towering college castle are arranged in an orderly manner, which is mixed with gardens, fountains and simple facilities. The self-service medical clinic can ensure that every student who is injured due to training and training can get treatment quickly. In this luxurious college, there are more than 1,800 rigorously trained fighters who are receiving high-level training. Intensive training.

And today, in this well-known academy with the halo of legendary powerhouses and everyone knows, there are countless young people with expressions of nervous anticipation. They may be accompanied by their parents, or accompanied by females, or They are alone, but no matter what, it can be seen that these people are more or less vindictive and possess some extraordinary powers.

This is the first large-scale enrollment of Champions Academy in Starfall in 837. The enrollment conditions are extremely relaxed. As long as the age is less than 25 years old, it passes political review, or has a recommendation from a specific local Moldavia person. It is possible to pass the test to enter school, which naturally attracts countless young people who are eager to learn under the legendary powerhouse.

　　 and Priest is one of them.

Today is when Priest participated in the Winter Fort test. The rough-faced, vaguely vicious young man looked quite nervous at this time. He stood alone in the crowd with his hands and knees uncontrollable. He was trembling slightly. This situation didn't get better until he took a few deep breaths and then looked at the picture of the girl in the necklace on his chest.

This is not to blame Priest, because he has put too much burden on himself... In order to let his sister Britney live a better life, in order to live up to the expectations of the factory boss, in order to reverse his own ordinary people The most important thing about fate is that in order to open up his own future path, this man will never allow himself to make the slightest mistake.

　　 "I will definitely succeed."

　　 Regardless of the strange eyes of the people around, Priest clenched his fists, closed his eyes, and muttered to himself in a low voice: "It's nothing difficult, it's just a small scene compared to before."

　　 Don’t be nervous, Priest, you have fought a group of dragons, crossed the plague and death, it’s just an ordinary academy test, you have no reason to lose to these guys who have never seen life or death.

Opening his eyes again, Priest looked at the bustling crowd in front of him. At this time, he had completely calmed down. He had regained confidence not only because of the hard work in the past, but also because of Priest. In recent efforts, you should know that the factory owner, the dwarf Lande, gave him a seven-day vacation, so that he could regenerate his energy at home, exercise and review his homework every day.

　　 Yes, review homework. Unlike the professional academies in other places, in Winterhold Academy, whether it is a spellcaster department, a wartimer department, or an additional priesthood department, you must learn a lot of extra knowledge and literacy.

It's just the basics. It is said that anyone who can graduate from college can easily write an essay of more than 6,000 words. This skill is more than enough even if you don't talk about your own combat power, it is more than enough to be a clerk by a certain nobleman.

　　 And all of this is because of what Joshua Avan Radcliffe, the legendary strong man and Lord of Moldavia, said in the 837 New Year speech of Starfall.

　　 "We cannot underestimate wisdom, and we must never underestimate combat. The two complement each other and are the essence of human progress.

The majestic man stood on a high platform in the inner city square, with a terrifying black dragon lying on his side. The warrior used a calm and low voice, but he could clearly hear it no matter where he said to all his people: "A country that separates scholars from warriors will only have the souls of cowards and stupid struggles."

Ding-dong, Ding-dong, just as Priest was still thinking about the scene that silenced the whole city at that time, the bell at the top of the college castle rang, accompanied by a group of tall knights in gray magic armor opening the castle gates. When he began to check the review documents and recommendation letters of every prospective student, Prest knew that the test he had waited for a long time had officially begun.

　　 "Name, age, occupation, place of birth."

　　 "Priest Omini, 21 years old, factory worker, southern border province of the empire."

After a long queue time, Priest finally came to the audit office, headed by a scarred knight in gray armor. After a simple question and answer, he took the letter of introduction and took it seriously. Read it again.

　　 "It's Lande's recommendation letter... let's go in."

After confirming the identity of the workers in the Priest factory, the gray-armored knight in charge of the inspection showed a slight smile. He patted the other party's shoulder with the heavy steel hand armor: "Go on, look forward to your support for Moldavi. Contribute to the prosperity of Asia!"

"of course!"

　　 Priest clenched the necklace on his chest. This action seemed to give him infinite motivation. The next moment, he strode to the shooting star and walked to the examination room inside the castle.

　　 half a day later.

　　 A tired Priest walked out of the castle gate, his expression a little confused.

　　 Success or failure? Is what I have just experienced a illusion or reality?

　　Priest doesn't know about all this, but he has done the best he can.

This test is very new to most of the participants. At the beginning, it was a two-hour written test. In the first half, the participants needed to answer basic historical and geographic questions about the Mycroft continent, as well as some There are simple and small questions about Warcraft. This part, which has been reviewed in detail, was written by Priest and quickly completed.

　　 But the next question is a bit over-the-top. It asks participants to write down their ideals, and explain why they want to join Winterhold Academy and what is the purpose. And the big question in the last paragraph is to ask the participants how they will use this power if they become extraordinary, and what is the essence of their understanding of this extraordinary power.

　　 Undoubtedly, there are definitely many people who are not prepared for this, and Priest is the same, but unlike other people who don't know where to write, he just thinks for a moment, and then smoothly continues to write.

A man is not stupid. Of course, he knows that the purpose of these questions is to check the basic knowledge and common sense of the participants. This is all but a fool. The second part is to observe the character and purpose of the participants. People with abnormalities will be eliminated. The last part is to observe the psychological conditions of the participants again from the other side. Therefore, Priest did not write many fancy words, but just took his ideals from the past experience The comprehension that was extracted from it was written in plain language.

　　 "Become a strong person who can protect my family and lead them to live a better life. Extraordinary power is my tool. It is no different from the equipment I use to produce goods and the knowledge in my mind. No special treatment is required."

But this is the Warlord Academy after all, so after the written test, Priest entered the illusion and conducted a continuous battle test for up to six hours. During this period, he used the various mists provided in the illusion. Swamps, dense forests, deserts, coastal areas, lake island areas and all kinds of magic

Monster battles, these were just a piece of cake for Priest, who had really fought the green dragon on the southern border of the empire. After the fight, he was a little tired, and his body even had some meaning.

　　 But the test is over.

　　 After the test, Priest returned home and ate and drank with his friends who were waiting for the end of his test, which was regarded as a celebration of his efforts during this period. Then, Priest continued his ordinary life, working in the factory in the morning, and taking his sister Britney home from the popular school in the evening. He waited for the notice of the college test to arrive.

　　 "Priest, come here soon!"

Time flies. A week later, while Priest was working in the factory, he suddenly heard the factory owner Lande shouting his name excitedly. He temporarily stopped his work, and then followed the voice to the factory gate. Then, the man still wearing overalls looked at the tall gray knight in magic armor and the package in his hand in amazement.

　　 "Congratulations, Mr. Omini, you passed the test of Winterfort's "Champion Academy" with excellent results. Here is your package. Please open it now. I will teach you how to use it."

　　 I passed the test? !

Immersed in the surprise of passing the test, Priest subconsciously obeyed the instructions of the gray armor knight and opened the package handed by the opponent, but what appeared in the palm of his hand was a whole body of blue, like a pure sapphire. The crystal of this crystal is roughly rhombus, and the surface is a very complicated cutting surface. It can be seen that there is a fluorescent flash in the center of the crystal, as if there is a Mobius ring-like rune formation that is spinning rapidly, releasing light.

　　 "Relax your mind, concentrate on contact with it, and make your own mark."

The gray armored knight slowly guided Priest, his eyes flowed a little bit of envy, but quickly returned to normal, the knight said with a sharp glance: "This is the latest universal magic equipment developed by Winterhold Academy. You can call it information. The terminal 0.9 test version, the official version has not yet been tested and launched, but the basic network has been set up inside the college."

　　 "Praise the Lord Lord, and feel honored, you and others who have joined the academy are the first users of this terminal."

　　……

　　 "Joshua! What are you doing, the server is about to crash, hurry up and reinforce it!"

　　 "Hey, Nostradamus! Why are you telling me about this, aren't you and William responsible for maintaining the stability of the mental network? Where else is Barnier? Why hasn't his rune program been finished yet?"

　　 "Yesterday he said that he found a program error and worked overtime to modify it all night. It seems that the modification has not been completed yet!"

　　 "I said that it is not reliable for you to make a batch of information terminals in such a hurry. Can't you wait until the experiment has made more progress?"

　　 Northern Empire, Moldavia, Nissi Snow Mountain Winter Fort Academy.

　　 Located in a huge steel laboratory on the top of the snow mountain, the tense voices of several legendary powerhouses echoed back and forth.

At this time, Joshua strode to a huge rune crystal core 25 meters long and full of blue and blue. On his side, there was a dangling magic projection No. 3 floating on his side, and the warrior brows at this moment. He wrinkled tightly and asked in a low voice: "No. 3, see where the server is overloaded, I'll remodel it."

　　 "It's here."

　　 No. 3 raised his head, glanced at this rune crystal, which was quite similar to her body, and then pointed to a place where light converged: "The rune entanglement in this place is more serious and the load is heavy."

Hearing that, Joshua didn't have any nonsense, so he input a little steel power to the place pointed by No. 3, and fine-tuned the material structure in it. Soon, Nostradamus could hear Nostradamus's breath of relief: "Okay, the link between Mindnet and Monet is restored, and we will wait for Barnier to finish writing the program."

　　 "You guys..."

Feeling that he has become a maintenance worker, Joshua said very annoyed, but then he sighed again: "I also blame me, I said too much all of a sudden...The knowledge of the two worlds blends, and it is no wonder these legendary mages are so so. Excited."

　　 Things have to start more than a month ago.

　　Star Fall 836, December 15th, freedom

The legendary powerhouse, Barnir, the master of runes, and the three legendary powerhouses of William and the northern empire, Israel, Nostradamus and Joshua, contributed an extremely important piece of news. Over the Mykrov Continent, the existence of the'Magic Net'.

This is an extremely ancient network that has existed for thousands of years. It is rooted in the energy cycle of the entire world. If it weren’t for Barnier and others to backtrack through the link of the Titans, even the legendary powerhouse would be almost impossible. Discovering it, this may be that the Guangyao Era Legacy's network is very well preserved. It is a stage database in which many secrets are stored, but based on the research of the legendary powerhouses now, there is no way to unearth these secrets.

However, Qiao Xiuya said that even if it is impossible to unearth the secrets, the network alone has countless possibilities. Warriors use the mind network of Star Sea World, Atrium Man and Mother Tree as examples, and even use the development of the Internet in their previous lives. In deduction, he showed the future he knew to the four legendary powerhouses present: the development of the Internet means the sharing of information, which will undoubtedly bring about an era of information explosion, and the information explosion will bring The most basic benefit is the popularization of knowledge.

　　On the Internet, there may be many false things, perhaps many lies and bragging, among them, there are many worthless spam messages, but anyone can learn extremely rich knowledge from them as long as they have the heart.

This immediately attracted the interest of Israel and Nostradamus, who wanted to popularize extraordinary powers. Barnier and William, who had always liked to search for all kinds of ancient books and secret information, also came to light. They even had rich experience. I quickly found other ways to use the Internet, that is, real-time communication between various places. Under the magic power of transmitting information at the speed of light, communication within the Mycroft Continent can be carried out almost without delay. This is a risk for the command of the army. The communication and sharing between the teams, help and rescue can all play a great role.

In addition, there are many benefits of the Internet. Qiao Xiuya did not describe them one by one. He just gave a general outline. It was probably that when the martial arts gym was opened before, the problem of being a teacher was committed again. The soldiers accidentally said too much. Many, even put forward a new concept: since we do not have enough materials to use the magic net on a large scale, we can build a large server based on the creeping forest in Moldavia as a signal relay. Use the power of the magic net in a small area.

This is indeed not a wrong idea. The only thing Joshua is wrong is to miscalculate the leisure and mobility of other people present. Whether it is the Emperor, the old mage, or the legendary mage duo, they have been idle recently. Panicking, and the ability to move far beyond ordinary people, Joshua proposed the possibility, they planned to do it directly at the time, and Joshua, after just building the Empire’s Void Warship production line, was once again pulled to build Unicom Demon. Net’s super server.

　　 "I really trouble you this time, number 3."

　　 Thinking of this, Qiao Xiuya couldn't help turning her head and glanced at the high-quality artificial intelligence **** her side, and whispered: "Take you to work with me."

　　 "No trouble, no trouble!"

　　 Is this kind of work still available? I have a few more copies! No. 3 shook his head quickly, with a slight smile on his lips.

This time the establishment of the Monet server is really a blessing for No. 3. As an artificial intelligence, No. 3’s own rune crystal body is actually a large information management center. As long as it is slightly improved, it is loaded with a little detection Monet. With the signal equipment, an information processing matrix can be successfully constructed, so if Joshua wants to make changes to this rune crystal server, he also needs to pull up the number 3 and check it together.

It's just this'slightly' improved workload, which is beyond the imagination of many legendary powerhouses. It is just a network for the students of Winterhold, which makes Barnier, who is responsible for writing the rune program, exhausted. He and Heiwu It seems that I didn't feel so tired when fighting for the right to control the fog. Although Joshua, who is a server that needs to perform system fine-tuning hundreds of times a day, still seems to be in good spirits, he is actually anxious to find someone to learn from.

　　 "It's actually okay now."

　　 Aside, William, who is observing the situation of the spiritual network linked by Wintergarden students and Monet in real time, seems to want to comfort everyone. He said with relief: "Think about the White Pagoda in the future, the sacred mountain in the distant sea, the official of the entire Northern Empire.

As for the scenario where all humans, elves, and dwarves join this network, the server load at that time... isn't it? We are quite relaxed now. "

　　 "Shut up." "Please stop."

Although he reprimanded William like this, Joshua actually looked forward to the future growth of this network. Now it is the beginning of its creation. Naturally, they need legendary powerhouses to perceive the link magic network and set up servers on the front line. In the future, more mages and technicians will replace their jobs, even going further than they expected.

Just like now, in version 0.9 of the information terminal, there are only task sections and forums inside the Winterhold Academy. Among them, the task section is designed by himself through a little information of the system to replace the credit tasks inside the Winterhold Academy. System, the current college students who want to take the task no longer need to go to the central hall of the major colleges, just click on the task section, and the credits do not need to be counted by many tutors. The rune program written by Barnier will automatically accumulate. .

The forum section is an information exchange center proposed by the fighters. The specific usage is to post ordinary posts to provide many students with exchange information. Although the service has only been opened for more than ten days, the number of various posts has been Reached an alarming number.

Although most of them are commemorative posts for the completion of ordinary missions, there are also quite a few that describe in detail how they completed this mission. Among them, the characteristics and main points of the monsters are all clearly written in essence. And this That is, the original knowledge of the fighters in establishing this forum is that only by spreading can they be valuable. Only by communicating with each other ~ www.novelmtl.com ~ civilization can develop rapidly.

In the foreseeable future, Western psionicists will be able to communicate directly with the Eastern Mage Association, ancient spiritual psychic abilities will usher in new blood, and emerging magic will also be supplemented by ancient knowledge. Some vindictive and combat skills that have gradually fallen behind will also be rejuvenated by other knowledge supplements. It will be a feast for everyone in the world. As long as everyone is willing to share, then everyone can get what he wants. all.

Perhaps people like Israel, Barnier and others don’t know what changes their actions will bring to the world, but Joshua is different. He is well aware of this one-handed, one-handed network, How valuable is it?

　　 "I really look forward to it, this is completely different from the previous life, the future of the new Mycroft world."

　　 At the same time.

　　 Boundless celestial realm, the starlight of the stars of the multiverse world began to flicker in the dark void here, and the brilliance of the Great Demon Tide became heavier and heavier. At this time, it finally penetrated into this semi-independent plane high above the world of Mykrov.

　　 "The time is coming."

　　 A long sigh with an echo, appeared in the center of this world faintly.

　　 "The gear is returning to its place, and the legacy is recovering. Although it has been hundreds of years late, the glory of the Glory Era finally shines on the Starfall Era."

　　 "Tell Eagle, the time is coming when the gods will come."

　　 "We are coming back soon."